Breadboard ends are easier than you think!

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Breadboard ends for absolute beginners! Breadboard ends are a timeless way to help keep big panels like table tops from warping and cupping over time. In this video I show you how I do them without the help of the Domino. Frankly, I don't think using the Domino is the best way to do them.
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00:00 Introduction
00:15 Opening walk through
00:48 Mark Up
01:32 Cutting the stub tenon
02:59 Marking up the long tenons
05:55 Cutting out the long tenons
08:53 Marking up the mortises
09:49 Cutting mortises
12:54 Sneaking up on the fit
13:50 Draw bore
17:23 Setting the draw bore
18:21 Wrap up

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@adamqp Жыл бұрын

That tip to make the pin holes back a 1/16" is really great, thanks!

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Yeah that's the real secret sauce to the draw bore!

@twobitwoodworker Жыл бұрын

You can save a ton of wear and tear on your router bit if you only use it over your tenons and stub tenon. The rest you're going to cut off anyway, so just leave it at full thickness. It's less work and easier to balance the router. The only other tip I have is the offset for the drawbore, unless it's pine 1/32" is plenty. I've had pegs jam on me, or break, and even had the underside of the breadboard break off when hammering a 1/16" drawbore home. Longer pegs with long tapers help, but 1/32" is more than enough. Thanks for sharing.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Very solid point about removing the tenon waste first!

@seanpatterson1609 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the longer video. These are a nice pace for learning this activity for me.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback. We are trying to make these as high value as possible.

@ChapmanWW Жыл бұрын

Very detailed but easy to follow video. Glad you've found your passion in life Mike.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

That was the goal! Glad to hear we attained it! Thank you!

@AndyBirdBuilds Жыл бұрын

I love the look too! Thanks for sharing your process.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

They are really pretty for sure!

@matttaylor4498 Жыл бұрын

Looks so clean. Very descriptive thank you.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@baileythompson3680 Жыл бұрын

Excellent information, really enjoyed it.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@CoreyD76 Жыл бұрын

Looks great Mike!

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

@stockbilt6125 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful work man

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thanks brother!

@kjburke58 Жыл бұрын

I really like to find out what this table looks like a year down the road how the breadboards really work because I sure like the way they look and it makes a lot of sense the way it’s done done

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

There are examples of tables that were made hundreds of years ago that are still alive and kicking with this joinery.

@bigskymaker Жыл бұрын

🔥great video mike! Like how you left the breadboard ends long so you could take it off easily. Beautiful table!

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Makes for easy clean up!

@thomaszaccone3960 Жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thank you!

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@orrinkelso9295 Жыл бұрын

Just how I do mine. I like how you use your measuring tools. I also put a "V" groove on the side where the bread board end meets the table because the end is going to become uneven with the rest of the top when the table expands and contracts with seasonal movement.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Good tip!

@TwoMooseDesign Жыл бұрын

Great video! Tons of info

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

It's chock full of info!

@richardh6964 Жыл бұрын

Great video. One thing I leaned the hard way was consider where you want the expansion and contraction to occur when you are making the slots for the dowels. In this case where it’s a table you sit at from both sides I would do it as you showed but if it’s a piece intended to go against a wall I would put the fixed hole on the front of the top and slot the middle and back one so the top moves on the back where you don’t see. I found this is especially important when you have molded edges as the movement will be very visible when looking at the top.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Great advice!

@khalidhemeda2311 Жыл бұрын

Thanks 💐

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@DsHardWoodCreations Жыл бұрын

Great video mike

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏼

@9000ryguy 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for not using the domino. Most people don't have a 1500 domino laying around that they wanna use for their hobby, me included. But I also don't have a mortiser around either. That is the part of this process that is still intimidating to me. I did just put some breadboard ends on that I am hoping turn out well. I used a router table to try to do the mortise and it was kind of tricky. But we'll see! I've heard that the breadboard ends don't really function as a way to keep the table flat but mostly are there for asthetic. Maybe its a bit of both.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 8 ай бұрын

They absolutely keep the table flat. That’s why the joinery method was invented. I’d recommend doing the mortises on the drill press in the future.

@JFantin75 Жыл бұрын

Great video - I love making breadboard ends too for a slightly different application, but typically with dominos, but I think this way makes it more stable due to the larger tenons and the stub tenon.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

I think the big deficit comes from the stub tenon honestly.

@michiganmoto7687 Жыл бұрын

@@CoffeyCustomBuilds deficit or benefit? The mortise and tenon with the long stub tenon is far more stable (and stronger) than dominoes. Plus using dominoes require glueing the entire length of the breadboard not allowing for seasonal movement. There is a reason why we have antique tables that are 200+ years old and modern tables of today won’t be around in 100 years. ✌️

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

@@michiganmoto7687 the deficit meaning that the domino doesn't have a stub tenon

@dougschriefer3076 Жыл бұрын

Mike, great video I love the artistic style. A few questions: Do you think there would be any benefit from drilling the holes at each end of the cut to prevent the end of the tenon from wanting to split with lateral movement? I think I had heard that once, but not sure if it's just in my head or not. I am assuming you said it and I just missed it in the video when you ran the 1/2" groove on the router table you were using a smaller bit, and running it in both directions to center it? I am assuming this is preferred over milling your lumber to the thickness of your bit?

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Yeah I make the joinery around the wood thickness I have. I don't make the thickness around the tooling typically.

@cdalekeefe 8 ай бұрын

Great video very informative. With the dowel pins, did you go all the way through underneath or is the hole only through the top portion of the breadboard?

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 8 ай бұрын

I go all the way through. I prefer that look

@tiananman 7 ай бұрын

Keeping that end material on the breadboard instead of having the tenon show through helps keep the breadboard from warping and pulling up away from the tenon.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 7 ай бұрын

Definitely

@laurasiniawski226 Жыл бұрын

Love a breadboard end 🤩. The table is beautiful! Love the tip of moving the holes in 1/16” to pull the board in tight! Is that Rubio cotton white on the top? And do you typically get dowels somewhere close to you or order them online? (I have only found them at the orange store locally… so wood species is never what I’m looking for.)

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

That was Rubio white. No cotton was harmed. I get them from one of my hardwood dealers but Amazon is actually good for them.

@laurasiniawski226 Жыл бұрын

@@CoffeyCustomBuilds thanks! 😊

@BillWanamaker Жыл бұрын

Great video! Question: do you glue the pins on the sides? Or are they just held in place by the nature of the draw bore?

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

I did do a dab of glue. However, I think that's overkill.

@VinceEspositoJr Жыл бұрын

Looks good. I'm a big fan of ash. On the end dowels, I understand not gluing them into the tenons, but do you at least glue them into one or both sides of the breadboard edge so they don't slide out of flush? Thanks.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

I definitely did glue them into place.

@billballeza377 Жыл бұрын

Oh, yeah. That’s a whole lot easier than I thought.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Once you see it all laid out it's not bad!

@mikesherwood9984 Жыл бұрын

At the end, you said that the finish was applied to table. The wood looks largely unchanged, what finish did you use? It’s beautiful.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The top got Rubio Monocoat white and the bottom got Rubio Monocoat Intense Black pre color followed by Rubio Monocoat Black.

@dajur1 9 ай бұрын

When making a table with a leaf, should you do bread boards on the inside as well?

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 9 ай бұрын

I wouldn't personally. I would change the grain orientation of the leaf for sure.

@christophermcmullen5693 Жыл бұрын

Why didn’t you use non round pegs? I have heard that a peg with edges holds better. But I am new to woodworking.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

I've never heard of this nor seen this done. Doesn't mean it can't work but I don't see the advantage.

@ryand5875 11 ай бұрын

Why just three tenons? Is three enough? Currently building my dining room table and am about to start my breadboard ends. The table is 42" wide with 7, 6" planks glued up.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 11 ай бұрын

They're huge tenon's. They're plenty.

@ColinForBooks Жыл бұрын

were the dowels also ash? if you purchased dowels, would you need to buy ash ones or any hardwood?

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

I would stick with ash for sure. They were ash on here too.

@jamescanning7137 Жыл бұрын

Using the glued-up top as the reference surface for milling the tenons implies that it's truly flat. How to do get a top that large to be that flat?

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

With proper milling techniques.

@pepperman9 Жыл бұрын

Don't route backwards. Use a featherboard as well. Center tenon does not need ¼" expansion relief but won't hurt, it is the secure point all expansion will depart from. Half that amount is fine. When setting depth with router for ½" cheek cut of breadboard, use a playing card or two layers of blue tape to allow sneak up room for tight fit when placing in tenon. After driving dowels and they're set, place tape or playing card on table surface to flush cut them and sneak up with plane , chisel or sandpaper; this prevents any teeth marks from the top surface during flush cutting. Otherwise spot in instruction.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the review

@bigwillysgarage2301 Жыл бұрын

Great content mister Coffey do u have a patreon ? 😊

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the question. I think I want to hold of until the channel has 25k subs.

@bigwillysgarage2301 Жыл бұрын

We’ll keep it up you will be there in no time bud

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

@@bigwillysgarage2301 here's to hoping!

@TheJelac 17 күн бұрын

What if I wanna make mortise and tenon along the entire side of table? Will it work? I mean, one big joint.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 17 күн бұрын

One big tenon?

@TheJelac 16 күн бұрын

@@CoffeyCustomBuilds yea, one big tenon. I don't have a tool to drill deeper holes. I can cut a groove on the table saw that will be the entire length of the board, but I can't get a deeper groove-shallow groove-deeper groove...

@thenext9537 Жыл бұрын

What's not shown is taking the rule, measuring it, then realizing the other end is off now. Then measuring that end, and realizing that the OTHER end is now off. Rinse and repeat a half dozen times (or more) and you get your final take. Track saws it seems, you have to lift up the end to get the other piece on a corner rather than the width and you can move it reliably. Otherwise, it's back and forth time ftw.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds Жыл бұрын

This is correct 😂

@hjeffwallace 3 ай бұрын

Good job. I wish you used ear protection. My brother can’t hear his kids due to tools and hunting without ear protection. He thinks it doesn’t matter because it’s too late to hurt him. The opposite is true. Damaged ears are more vulnerable.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 3 ай бұрын

I wear ear protection all day. Just not in the incredibly short amount of shots you see in the video. Thank you for the concern though!

@dave_ecclectic 4 ай бұрын

*These are breadboard ends or breadboard joints.* I would like to point out some people change a joint to the extent that it no longer is that joint. A method using dominoes has been spreading on the web proclaiming this to be an easy or trick way to make this joint has begun to confuse people. So, on my mighty stead I ride. I find that many people are calling this Dominoe method of producing a Breadboard joint as an easy or trick method, should realize that this isn't a breadboard joint (or breadboard end) anymore. This is one reason it is easier since it isn't the joint anymore. This is a specific kind of joint and using dominoes has varied so far from this joint as to not be this joint anymore. I would also challenge those who think that it is, to consider if one made in the same way with dowels would still be a breadboard joint or if the dowels were totally eliminated and used a butt joint was still a breadboard end. It isn't the application of a board across the grain which produces this joint but the method of joinery, and the reason for doing this joinery in the first place.

@CoffeyCustomBuilds 4 ай бұрын

Not sure if you watched but I did it correctly and didn't use a domino

@dave_ecclectic 4 ай бұрын

@@CoffeyCustomBuilds Yes, you did do it correctly and also showed it isn't all that difficult to actually produce the joint rather than reduce it to a small number of tiny pegs. I didn't say that yours were not. I bolded and isolated my first line to hopefully eliminate confusion.